/lit/ - Literature

>drinking
coffee, about to switch to beer once i finish this up
>eating
wheatabix
>reading
infinte jest

>>15140888
NICE DIGITS!!!

>>15140888
>wheatabix
I will find you. I will find you and make you spell it properly.

>>15140898
oops

>>15140888
>>15140879
Tea, reading C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity.

>>15140879
I used to be like this guy, reading non fiction all the time to improve my career.

I'm drinking water, eating pork and reading on the mistakes of natural law.

>get to oxen chapter in ulysses
>actually really digging the style, especially blooms self-reflection
>that clusterfuck ending
What the hell was even happening in the last four pages

>coffee, heady topper, bourbon
>toast
>wuthering heights

>>15140909
Get ready to have several dry *Weetabix* inserted into you.

>>15140923
Spooky, I finished MC today while drinking tea.
How are you liking it?

>>15140944
pls be grill

>>15140938
>wuthering heights
why aren’t you reading something cool like name of the wind or BLOOD SONG

>>15140879
Water
Cookies
Moby Dick

>>15140989
I actually like the name wuthering heights
We should have a god tier book name thread some time, like how good the book actually is doesnt matter, judging solely off title.

>>15140879
>Drinking
Brandy
>Eating
Peanuts
>Reading
Bukowski

I ate a big kale salad, and I'm not reading anything

Tea - English breakfast
Taleggio and a baguette hon hon hon
the idiot

>drinkan
Beer
>eatan
nothing
>readan
Book of Disquiet

>>15140931
Pretty sure that's a fantasy novel.

>>15141080
Heart of Darkness needs to be at the top of that list.

>>15141099
Nice, I had a dream about that book last year and it reminded me that I need to get back to it because I dropped it halfway through due to Dostoevsky burnout.

>drinkan
Water
>eatan
Nuthin
>readan
Meditations

>>15140879
>drinking
some instant coffee; it's surprisingly quite good, fren!
>eating
nothing, really.
>reading
just finished American Psycho and continuing to read 11.22.63. very good book for someone so fascinated by the 50s/60s.

>>15141136
Skim through part one and read from part two
It is a pleasant way to spend international house arrest

>>15141199
>1.22.63
any good books to read about life in the 1940s, 1950s? I love a good pop history.

>>15140879
Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind
Drinking coffee (it's 2p here)

>>15140879
cheap beer
crunchchips x-cut tomato and cheese
ring of saturn

>>15140879
tuna casserole
ice water
just started Cervantes' Exemplary Stories

>>15140879
>drinking
Iced tea
>eating
Risotto
>reading
Underworld by Don Delillo

>>15140879
>WATCHA DRINKING
Local coffee with Bailey's
>WATCHA EATING
Gonna make a mean turkey sandwich later
>WATCHA READING?!
Right now, /lit/. Read some of Bleeding Edge earlier, enjoying it. Might work on my novel a bit tonight before a Zoom call with an old college buddy.

Who here /comfy/?

>>15140879
if we're gonna do this then we need a suitable /lit/ image to go along with it

>drinking
10 year Aberlour
>eatan
Greek yogurt with blueberries
>readin
Brothers Karamazov, Lithuanian translation is 10x better than the English translation. I feel bad for you guys who read the English translation. Genuinely.

I'm studying for my finals tomorrow. One more week and then I will have a month off before work starts.

Diet Sprite
carne asada quesadilla
The Anderson Tapes

>>15140879
I imagine I'll snooze off to Hans Castorp forcing his cousin to run around Berghof, visiting every moribund guest at the place tonight.

Time for the horizontal position.

>>15140879
>Drinking
Wine, coffees
>Eating
Meat, coconut cake
>Brothers Karamazov

>>15143210
fuck, well you get it

>>15140879
>drinking
Water (stay hydrated bros)
>eating
Pasta
>reading
The Brothers Karamazov, Fighter Club, and Clean Code when I can

>drinking
Japanese whiskey
>eating
pistachios, the patrician snack

>reading
the latest issue of my favourite contemporary poetry magazine, as well as some loli doujinshi

>drinking
Beer
>eating
Nothing
>reading
Les Miserables

>>15143259
fitting

>>15140879
Kool-Aid
Doritos
Proust

>>15143077
>Brothers Karamazov, Lithuanian translation is 10x better than the English translation. I feel bad for you guys who read the English translation. Genuinely.
I've compared english translations of russian works with those in my native language (swedish), and found the latter far more lively. I'm biased, of course, but we do have a *stellar* tradition of translation. Were the anglophones just unlucky?

>>15140879
>Drinking
Wine, Kratom
>Eating
Nothing
>Reading
Suicide by Leve.

Water
Cod fish and vegetables
The Post Office Girl - Stefan Zweig

>>15143309
How are you liking Zweig? I'm about 60 pages into his The World of Yesterday, which I've very much enjoyed so far (it's certainly fed my obsession with pre-war Europe), but it's the only work of his I've touched.

>DRINKING
Coffee (Keurig, might French Press but feeling lazy)

>EATING
Pork loin cooked in a slow cooker, though that won’t be done for a few hours

>READING
The masks of God: Primitive Mythology

>>15140879
>Drinking
Water
>Eating
My fat cells
>Reading
The book of the Disquiet

>>15143077
Same. Serbian translation is vastly superior to the Russian one... maybe even English one as well.

>>15143279
Maybe not so much unlucky as lacking translators who are absolute masters of Russian language. Maybe it's the English language itself...

I DRINK milk
I EAT peanuts
I READ Savitri Devi's Lightning and the Sun

>>15143411
My swedish copy of C&P says it was translated in cooperation with "soviet experts". Always found that funny.

i am drinking tennents and reading actress in the house by joseph mcelroy. it's very good (the book).

water
nothing
dostos demons

>>15140879

Hot Chocolate
Nothing
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury

Epitaph of a Small Winner
Coffee
Mandarin Oranges

>>15140879
Fanta
Pizza
Titus Lucretius Tarus - On The Nature of Things

water
cauliflower pizza
Claw of the Conciliator

>drinking
corona beer

>eating
cheesestrings

>reading
Mason & Dixon

>>15143360
based cannibal

>>15143977
You're trying really hard to shill this guy

>>15143446
Based. Remember Him tomorrow.

diet Dr. Pepper
Cheese Balls
Jed McKenna-Spiritual Warfare

>coffee
>toffee
>stalingrad

>drinking
nothing
>eating
nothing
>reading
reddit

>>15140989

Name of the Wind is trash because Rothfuss is a faggot cuck who needs to kill himself.


Blood Song was good but the sequels sucked dick

>drinking
chamomile tea
>eating
toast with jam
>reading
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

>>15140879
glenfiddich
nothing
who translates?
wish i could get back into fiction, but it feels so useless

>>15140879
Green Tea

Croissants my dad made since he's a baker

Huckleberry Finn

>drinking
PABST BLUE RIBBOOOOOOOOOOOON
>eating
ate so much chicken last night i havent had to eat all day
>reading
douglas coupland's generaiton x (3rd read), heidegger's being and time, and the fountainhead which is a surprisingly fun read

>>15143048
That image is more than suitable.

I read Shannara before bed. Comfy stuff.

>>15143446
NOICE

nothing, nothing, homework.

I am drinking a Regular Coors not shitty coor's light.
I just finished a grilled ham & Cheese which was very good.
I am starting the Metaphysics of sex by evola.

>>15143048
>>15145111
How's this?

>>15140923
That was a really excellent book. Introduced me to the idea that laws of moral behavior must exist as much as laws of physics. Of course it must be true, I thought when reading it. There always axioms of interaction which are the basis of any successful system. In the case of the moral axioms, societies which adhere to them survive and flourish, and those that don't are necessarily destroyed - like a universe missing gravity or some such analogy.

>>15146374
confirmed midwit. mere christianity is the type of shit stoners come up with at 3am, I have never been more disappointing after finishing a book. it literally 100 pages of begging the question, followed by whining about women

It's fucking Monday you faggot

plowing through The Secret History

it sucks so far

>>15140879
>Coffee
>Nothing
>Dune

>>15140879
>drinkin
water
>eatin
snackin on oat cookies
>reading
tolstoy's short stories

I don't really come to /lit/ at all but I figured this would be a good place to ask
is listening to audiobooks while doing something else (like playing video games) a good way to consume literature or is it more of a meme?

>tea
>A Clash of Kings

Coffee
Nothing
Republic

>>15146397
t. Seething athiest

>>15146578
It's a terrible idea because literature should demand your undivided attention. Books aren't designed to be background noise

>>15140879
martenelli apple juice, corn dog, dave's wheat taost w/ TJs strawberry jam after 420 sesh, Jacques Vallee Dimensions after 420 sesh

>>15146578
No

>>15147086
>>15147134
That's unfortunate, for me at least
I want to get in to reading more but I'm a slow reader and get distracted really easily
I guess I can just tough it out lol
Thank you guys for the input, though. I appreciate it

>>15146578

For simpler books, such as light short motivation books, I think audio isn't so bad.

For everything else, in my opinion, the language used in writing is a lot different from the spoken language. I think that's why it's a lot harder to absorb literary techniques, because you're not looking and processing it yourself.

Although, people who use audiobooks, tend to get a lot of books finished that way. I'd like to hear from one of them how much they retain.

>>15147144
Just read small amounts slowly and give it all your attention. You'll get better in time, just have fun.

>>15147144
>I want to get in to reading more but I'm a slow reader and get distracted really easily

Books come in various difficulties, and reading comprehension is like a muscle, you only get better the more you do it.

My advice is to ignore any tips that have to do with reading quicker or anything to do with speed reading. Read slowly at the rate you understand things. You will get better. Take your time, because haste only makes waste. There's nothing worse than plowing through a book and barely understanding half the content.

>>15146578
>a good way to consume literature
>consume
It's better for non-fiction -- history podcasts, news/politics. If it's topical to what you're playing, it might enhance your appreciation of a fiction audiobook and even recall. Never listened to audiobooks myself until finding a narrator whose performances I enjoyed specifically. It's a meme, but it's down to you to make it viable.

>>15146578
I did it when painting houses about ten yrs ago and among other books listened to Dharma Bumbs and Neuromancer; Blue Highways and Moon's follow up about boating the inland waterways-- in other words I purposely chose books I wouldn't otherwise read. Did discover McCarthy in this way and have actually read all his other books but one since (Orchard Keeper). Can't denigrate the practice though it's typically not my own.

>>15141199
11.22.63 is alright. The only scary part is at the end of the book when you see the new future created by saving JFK

>>15140955
>>15140944
Sir.

The next morning, I awoke at about 9am. I had booked the week off, just to spend with the slut I now have tied over the chair. Her dream is to be treated like a toy, nothing more than a piece of meat to be used, abused, tortured and degraded just for my pleasure and amusement. She wanted no limits, and got it. I had tied her, bent over a chair, wrists and ankles tied to the legs, a spreader bar between her knees, ass in the air, and left her there all night, gagged. I look over at her, and it's obvious she had a rough night. I got up, and spanked her ass, hard, as I walked past to have a shower. When I got back, I sank three fingers into her pussy, making her try and thrust against them. I let her for a few minutes, then pulled them out, making her squirm and moan.

I untied her, made her kneel in front of me, and removed the spreader bar and gag. I told her to get into the bath tub, then pissed all over her. She then dried herself off, washed her hands, and went to make my breakfast of weetabix followed by bacon and eggs. She brought it to the living room, and knelt down to be used as my footrest. After I had finished, I allowed her to lick the bowl and plate clean, wash up, and get two dog bowls from the cupboard. In one, she put dog food, and I filled the other with leftover bacon and eggs. She ate the food, using just her mouth, which looked awkward, and then took the dog food down to the cellar where I have a slave tied to the floor. I have her collared, with a chain padlocked onto it. The other end of the chain is padlocked to a ring, bolted to the floor. The chain is about a metre long, just short enough to stop it standing up. Its hands are cuffed behind its back, but otherwise it is totally free. This one wanted a really extreme, no limits, no rights, way of life, one totally controlled by me. That one has been chained in my cellar for five years, never come, never been let out, never dressed, and hasn't been spoken to in four and a half years. Literally just kept there and used whenever I want to torture or fuck. I even branded it with 'SLUT' over its' tits, and tattooed 'fuck this' over its' mouth. I feed it dog food and my shit, make it drink my piss, and once a week allow it a real meal. the cellar is specially modified with a drain, and each day I spray the bitch with a hosepipe to clean it! I'm kind of hoping that this new one wants a similar life!

>this is what comes up when you search for 'weetabix bdsm'